LIN, PEI YEN
Dong Hsing Elementary School, Yi-Lan, Teacher
Email：curly2me@gmail.com
FENG, JUI
Fo Guang University, Assistant Professor
Email：rfeng@mail.fgu.edu.tw
Abstract
The purpose of this action research was to investigate how blog was integrated Into the curriculum of Arts and Humanities to improve elementary students’ interaction by using e-portfolios. The participants were the fourth grade students from an elementary school in suburban Yi-Lan County. Through 12 weeks of blog instruction, data were collected from teaching diary, cooperative teacher’s observation, questionnaire and interviews with students and the feedback on blog. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and qualitative method. The results of this study are summarized as follows: (1) The blog integrated into the curriculum of Arts and Humanities does improves students’ interaction via feedback on blog. (2) The curriculum of this study enhances students’ learning interests. (3) Students had positive attitude towards blog integrated into the curriculum of Arts and Humanities by using e-portfolios. (4) This study helps teacher to increase the ability of teaching methods and instructional design. Suggestions were also made based on the results of this study.
Keywords :Blog, E-portfolio, Peer interaction, Action research